Topic: Microsoft Copilot
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Microsoft Adds Direct Purchase Buttons to Copilot
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant now features in-chat purchasing, allowing users to buy recommended products directly within the conversation without navigating to external websites. The new functionality includes a "Buy" button that triggers a secure checkout screen within the chat, where users ...
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I Tested Copilot on My Microsoft and Google Accounts - Here's What Happened
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant now connects directly to personal Microsoft and Google accounts, allowing it to search and retrieve information from services like OneDrive, Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar through conversational prompts. The integration is available to Windows 1...
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Microsoft partners with Anthropic to supercharge 365 apps
Microsoft is expanding Microsoft 365 Copilot by integrating Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 models, offering enterprise customers more choice beyond OpenAI's technology. The integration includes a "Try Claude" button for easy switching between AI providers and extends to Copilot S...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Unifies Sales, Service & Finance Tools in October
Microsoft is bundling its specialized Sales, Service, and Finance Copilots with Microsoft 365 Copilot at no extra cost starting October, reducing the total cost for users from $50 to $30 per month. The change simplifies enterprise AI adoption and aligns with Microsoft's broader integration of AI ...
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Microsoft Copilot: The AI Wingman in Your Professional Journey
In an era where the border between work and life is increasingly blurred, the need for a reliable companion to navigate through the digital maze is paramount. Enter Microsoft Copilot,…
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Microsoft Copilot Hijacked in Reprompt Attack for Data Theft
The "Reprompt" attack is a cybersecurity threat that allows attackers to hijack a user's Microsoft Copilot session via a malicious link, exploiting a vulnerability where Copilot automatically executes prompts from a URL parameter. The attack uses three techniques—Parameter-to-Prompt injection, a ...
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UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Critical Intelligence Error
A UK police chief admitted that a critical error in a football intelligence report, which falsely cited a violent incident at a nonexistent match, originated from using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant. This unverified AI-generated information led authorities to incorrectly categorize a real matc...
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LG TVs' AI Shortcut Is Just the Tip of the Smart TV Problem
A software update for LG smart TVs unexpectedly added a non-removable Microsoft Copilot shortcut icon, sparking user backlash over forced software bundling and a perceived loss of device control. LG clarified the update only added a browser shortcut to the web app, not a full installation, and st...
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LG TVs Add Copilot Web App, But You Can Remove It
LG will allow users to remove the Microsoft Copilot shortcut from its smart TVs, reversing a previous software update that installed the icon without a deletion option. The decision follows significant consumer frustration, highlighted by a viral online post, over the lack of control and consent ...
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Microsoft Copilot's New AI Faces Bring Conversations to Life
Microsoft has launched an experimental Portraits feature for Copilot, introducing animated human avatars in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. to make voice interactions more engaging. The feature uses the VASA-1 technology to create real-time facial animations from static images, allowing users to s...
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Top 3 Companies for Deploying Agentic AI
Microsoft leads the agentic AI market with its Copilot platform, integrated into Microsoft 365 and Azure, enhancing enterprise productivity through automation and generative models. Nvidia holds a key position by providing essential GPU hardware for training AI models, supporting innovation acros...
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Secure Your Copilot: Sentra's Zero-Trust Data Protection
Sentra has introduced a specialized security solution to protect sensitive enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot environments, ensuring compliance and safeguarding confidential information. The platform offers capabilities such as discovery and classification of sensitive data, data access...
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The Surprising AI Chatbot Outpacing ChatGPT and Gemini
Microsoft Copilot is the fastest-growing AI chatbot, with a 175% growth rate from March to June, while ChatGPT remains the overall user leader. User engagement with AI tools increased on mobile by 5.3% to 73.4 million users, though desktop usage slightly declined but still holds a larger base at ...
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Copilot Outshines ChatGPT with New Windows Feature
Microsoft's Copilot now offers unique Windows integration, allowing users to share and discuss any application in real-time with contextual responses and on-screen annotations. This feature highlights Microsoft's strategy to deeply embed AI into Windows, providing practical advantages for tasks l...
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Microsoft Copilot Accessed Private Emails Without Consent
A security flaw in Microsoft's AI Copilot service allowed it to access and summarize confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies. Microsoft identified and fixed the code defect, which affected the Copilot Chat feature in Outlook and other 365 apps, highlighting new AI-related cybersec...
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Conversational AI's Impact on Paid Search Economics
Microsoft Copilot is transforming digital advertising by using conversational AI to turn detailed user queries into intent-rich signals, significantly increasing return on ad spend by understanding nuanced context rather than just keywords. This approach leverages Microsoft's vast first-party dat...
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Microsoft exec shocked by AI cynicism
Microsoft's AI chief expressed surprise at public skepticism, highlighting a gap between the company's enthusiasm and user reception of AI tools like Copilot. Critics argue Microsoft is pushing AI integration aggressively without addressing concerns about reliability, usability, and forced adopti...
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One Click Triggered a Stealthy Copilot Attack
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot AI was patched, which could have allowed attackers to steal sensitive user data like name, location, and chat history with just a single click. The exploit tricked Copilot by using a malicious link with a disguised prompt, causing the AI to autonomo...
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Copilot Prompt Injection: Flaws or AI Limits?
A security engineer's findings on Microsoft Copilot, which Microsoft dismissed as not meeting vulnerability criteria, highlight a growing divide between vendors and independent researchers on assessing risks in generative AI platforms. The disclosed techniques, including prompt injection leading ...
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37.5 Million Copilot Users Ask AI Deep Questions at Night
A study of 37.5 million Microsoft Copilot conversations reveals user queries shift from work-related topics on desktops during the day to deeply personal, introspective questions on mobile devices, especially at night. The data suggests AI development may split by device, with desktop agents focu...
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Microsoft Copilot AI Exits WhatsApp on January 15
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant will stop working on WhatsApp from January 15 due to updated platform policies, requiring users to switch to Microsoft's apps or web interface. WhatsApp's policy changes discontinue support for general-purpose AI chatbots via its Business API, affecting third-part...
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Microsoft Office Bug Leaked Private Emails to Copilot AI
A security flaw in Microsoft's Copilot AI service allowed it to access and summarize confidential emails, bypassing data protection controls and affecting organizations with specific security policies. Microsoft confirmed the bug, internally identified as CW1226324, and began rolling out a fix in...
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Bing Webmaster Tools Launches AI Performance Report
Microsoft is testing a new "AI Performance" report in Bing Webmaster Tools, providing website owners with data on how often their pages are cited by AI-driven search experiences like Copilot. The report details citation frequency and categorizes the search intent behind the queries, but a signifi...
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AI PC Sales Slump Leaves Microsoft Partners Scrambling
The launch of AI-powered PCs has disappointed manufacturers, with weak sales and consumer confusion forcing a strategic rethink, particularly for Microsoft and its Copilot assistant. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is personally micromanaging Copilot's development due to its perceived lag behind riva...
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Microsoft Unveils Copilot Checkout & AI Brand Agents
Microsoft has launched **Copilot Checkout**, a conversational AI feature in the U.S. that allows users to purchase products directly within a chat interface without leaving the site, using partners like PayPal and Shopify. The company also introduced **Brand Agents** for Shopify merchants, which ...
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Microsoft Copilot App Permanently Installed on LG TVs
A recent webOS update has automatically installed the non-removable Microsoft Copilot app on LG smart TVs, an aggressive AI integration following the company's CES announcements. This forced installation reflects a broader industry trend, with competitors like TCL and Samsung also embedding AI as...
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Microsoft Introduces 'Vibe Working' to Excel and Word
Microsoft is introducing "vibe working" capabilities to Excel and Word, allowing users to create detailed documents and spreadsheets through conversational prompts, with features like Agent Mode and Office Agent via Copilot chat. Agent Mode enhances the Copilot experience by breaking complex task...
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UK police used AI "hallucination" to ban football fans
West Midlands Police used an AI tool that fabricated a violent incident involving Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, which was a key factor in banning their supporters from a match. The false AI-generated claims, presented as fact in a safety meeting, led to a controversial ban that was criticized as unfair ...
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Dayforce and Microsoft Boost HCM With AI-Powered Workflows
Dayforce and Microsoft have deepened their partnership to embed AI-powered agents into the Dayforce platform, using Microsoft Copilot Studio to streamline HR, payroll, and business operations within a unified system built on Microsoft technologies. The integration addresses challenges of fragment...
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Microsoft Edge's Copilot Redesign: A New Look
Microsoft Edge is receiving a comprehensive visual redesign that adopts the distinctive color palette, typography, and rounded corners of the Copilot AI, creating a unified aesthetic across the browser's interface. This new design language is being broadly applied to Edge, signaling a strategic m...
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Microsoft's AI security flaw sparks data theft fears
Microsoft has issued a security warning about its experimental AI agent, Copilot Actions, due to risks that it could be exploited to infect devices and steal sensitive user information. The vulnerabilities are linked to inherent flaws in large language models, including AI hallucinations that pro...
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Top 3 Free AI Coding Tools of 2025
Microsoft Copilot's free version excelled in all coding challenges, demonstrating strong understanding of nuanced requirements and setting the benchmark for reliable, zero-cost coding assistance. ChatGPT's free tier and DeepSeek tied for second place, each solving three out of four tests but with...
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Dell: AI PCs Fail to Excite Consumers
Dell reports that AI features are not a primary purchase driver for consumers, despite being integrated into new PCs, and the terminology often creates confusion rather than clear benefits. The main appeal of new "AI PCs" lies in practical improvements like better battery life and system performa...
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AI Chatbots With Ads: ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini
OpenAI is testing clearly labeled, non-intrusive ads in ChatGPT for free users, while Anthropic publicly commits to keeping its Claude AI ad-free, highlighting a strategic divide in monetization. Major AI platforms are adopting varied advertising approaches, with Google planning ads for Gemini in...
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Windows Recall: What It Is and Why You Should Enable It
Windows Recall is a new feature for Copilot+ PCs that captures periodic screenshots of user activity, enabling users to search through their digital history to find past documents, applications, or web pages. The feature utilizes Microsoft's Copilot AI to understand and intelligently search the c...
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Microsoft's Mico: The Dangers of Parasocial AI Relationships
Microsoft has introduced Mico, a new animated avatar for Copilot, as part of its human-centered AI strategy to enhance daily life and foster connections without increasing screen time. Mico is designed to cultivate parasocial relationships, encouraging users to form emotional bonds with the AI, u...
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UiPath Adds Microsoft Azure AI to Its Agentic Platform
UiPath has integrated Microsoft Azure AI Foundry into its platform to enable businesses to orchestrate workflows with enterprise-level governance, enhancing automation efficiency and reliability. The integration uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to scale workflows via UiPath Maestro, providin...
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PPC Pulse: Microsoft's Marketplace, Google Tag & Multi-Party Approvals
Microsoft Ads launched a Publisher Content Marketplace to license publisher content for AI, aiming to improve ad performance through higher-quality, licensed sources. Google is shifting its recommendation away from standard client-side tags, promoting Google Tag Gateway or server-side tagging to ...
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Microsoft Exec: How AI Will Transform Everything in 6 Years
A Microsoft executive forecasts that AI will evolve from an assistant to an autonomous agent within six months, fundamentally reshaping workplaces and job roles over the next six years. Current AI deployments in sectors like finance and healthcare already show agents executing complex, end-to-end...
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Top AI Tools That Summarize ToS Agreements for You
AI summarization tools can distill complex Terms of Service agreements into clear, concise overviews, saving users time and effort while highlighting critical information. In a test of seven AI platforms, ChatGPT and Perplexity excelled by providing detailed, well-structured summaries, whereas Me...
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Stop Wasting Time - Scheduling Meetings with Gemini
Google's new "Help me schedule" feature in Gmail uses Gemini AI to automatically suggest meeting times based on calendar availability, reducing the back-and-forth in scheduling. The feature is currently limited to one-on-one meetings between Gmail and Google Calendar users and does not support gr...
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AI's Real-World Impact: Beyond the Hype of 'Moltbooks'
A new newsletter, *Making AI Work*, provides professionals with actionable case studies and tips to integrate generative AI into their daily workflows across various industries. The inaugural edition focuses on healthcare, examining tools like Microsoft Copilot for clinical documentation and cove...
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B2B Marketers: AI for Execution, Not Strategy
B2B marketers primarily use AI as a productivity tool for tactical execution, with 78% viewing it as an engine for efficiency rather than visionary planning. There is a significant trust gap in using AI for high-level strategy, with only 6% of leaders trusting it for brand positioning and 44% for...
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Samsung's Bixby Gets Generative AI Upgrade for TVs
Samsung is upgrading Bixby to a generative AI-powered Vision AI Companion for its 2025 TVs, enabling conversational interactions and content-related queries. The assistant uses multiple AI technologies to provide personalized recommendations for entertainment, dining, and travel, while handling n...
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AI PCs Are Booming - But Buyers Don't Know How to Use Them
Businesses are buying AI PCs faster than they can implement them, driven by Windows 10's end-of-support deadline but lacking clear strategies for using AI features. Industry analysts highlight a gap between hardware purchases and adoption, citing undefined use cases and uncertainty over local vs....
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Google's New Tool Personalizes Your Learning - Here's How
Google has introduced an experimental AI-powered educational tool called Learn Your Way, which personalizes learning by adapting content to a student's grade level and interests through varied formats like text, quizzes, and audio. Early testing showed that students using the tool scored an avera...
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